EMMA (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde
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EMMA (2020)
dir. autumn de wilde
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EMMA (2020)
EMMA AND KNIGHTLEY
dir. autumn de wilde
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EMMA (2020)
dir. autumn de wilde
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Emma. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde
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“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me.”
— Mr Knightley, from “Emma” by Jane Austen
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Mr Knightley 100% done.
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emma. (2020, dir. autumn de wilde)
Source: dreamyfilms
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The color blue in Emma. and how it’s used for Mr Knightley (and as a Knightley/Woodhouse ’family color’)
An interesting detail about Mr Knightley’s costumes in Emma is his blue tailcoat/jacket: it’s the same he wears in his very first scene in the movie (that also coincides with his first scene with Emma) and in his last scene when he marries Emma. Regency era weddings kept it simple for the most part, and even rich people would usually wear their ‘best’ suit/dress for the occasion, so the fact Mr Knightley chooses to wear the same blue jacket (and pants) you see him wear other times isn’t surprising. However, this choice seems deliberate too. For one, the other times where he wears that jacket are the scenes when he’s at Hartfield with Emma and her father. Aside from his wedding, the only instance where he wears it in a different context is in the infamous ‘Mrs Knightley’ scene at the Weston’s.
The color of his jacket is itself an interesting detail because it’s blue. If you notice, in the scenes where Isabella and John come to (and leave) Hartfield, husband and wife wear blue clothes. Not only that, during their stay Emma herself wears a blue dress in the non-formal scenes. Blue seems to be a family color of sorts for the Woodhouse and specifically linked to the Woodhouse/Knightley couples. If I want to be extra I’ll point up that George’s jacket is similar in color shade to his brother’s blue coat (and they both have a velvet detail on the lapel), while (likewise) Isabella and Emma’s clothes are a similar, more vibrant, blue tone. You could say that, symbolically, Emma and Knightley were mirroring their married siblings so Mr Knightley’s blue jacket had always been, from the beginning, a hint of his role as Emma’s eventual husband. Likewise, when the Knightley/Woodhouse family comes to visit them, Emma wears blue like her sister as a hint of her eventually becoming a Mrs Knightley too. The fact, also, that George is wearing that blue jacket in the scene where he’s mentioning a ‘Mrs Knightley’ too makes it even more funny (and cute!).
“Mr. Knightley had a cheerful manner which always did him good.”
Jane was once asked for her favourite among her own characters, and she answered ‘Edmund Bertram and Mr Knightley; but they are very far from being what I know English gentlemen often are’. - Lucy Worsley (source: James Edward Austen-Leigh)
Johnny Flynn as Mr. Knightley | EMMA. (2020)
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the finite - of the ideal made real. - Thomas Carlyle
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A little detail one might notice in the movie is that Emma and Mr Knightley wear matching rings with red stones from the beginning. Both of them also wear the ring on their left hand, the hand typically associated with marital status and romance in western cultures for it’s where the engagement and wedding rings are worn (according to some, this choice stems from the ancient Greek and Roman belief that this is the hand linked to the heart).
It seems to be a cute nod to their “hidden in plain sight” love story.
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- Johnny Flynn as Mr. Knightley in Emma. 2020
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❝I’m obsessed with Mr. Knightley because, I mean, I think everyone has had that best friend where you just argue, you do everything together, and years go by and you wonder if you should have kissed that person. And I think that’s why ‘When Harry Met Sally’ exists, because of Knightley and Emma—and ‘Reality Bites’ with Winona Ryder and Ethan Hawke. That’s a totally Mr. Knightley/Emma relationship.❞ — Autumn De Wilde
EMMA. | 2020 Emma & Mr. Knightley ft best friends to lovers trope
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Of course, an unlikely couple is exactly what Austen intended Emma and Knightley to be. Flynn describes how his own long-standing friendship with his now-wife, the theater designer Beatrice Minns (the two first met at school), contributed to his interest in Knightley and Emma’s “brother-sister relationship.” As de Wilde tells me later while extolling the ready chemistry between the pair: “The movie is very much supposed to play into everyone’s memory of that best friend that maybe they should have kissed.” It’s that sentiment that animates de Wilde’s film, which is, at its heart, a sparkling romance that feels unexpectedly timely. - “Meet the Stars of the Sumptuous New Emma”, VOGUE
Anya Taylor-Joy and Johnny Flynn EMMA. 2020
Mr. Knightley + Emotions
“I cannot make speeches, Emma…If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Jane Austen, Emma